Carl Schmitt

Carl Schmitt was a renowned legal theoretician and catholic intellectual of Germany and also one of the notable German authors. The life of Carl Schmitt was noted for his ties with the Nazi party as well as his ideology. It is noteworthy to learn some details about the life of Carl Schmitt.

Carl Schmitt was born in the year 1888, in Plettenberg, Westphalia and his father was a businessman. At places like Berlin, Munich and Strassburg, he was educated in state theory and law. In 1915, he managed to secure his graduation degree and gave the State promotion exams at Strassburg.

Carl Schmitt Works

After completing his education, Carl Schmitt joined the University of Greifswald as a professor in the year 1921. During this time he got his essay, “On Dictatorship” published. In it Carl Schmitt discoursed on the building blocks of the freshly set up Weimar Republic, stressing on the Reichspräsident's office. The importance of this essay stems from the fact that its focal theme acts as a prelude to his later works.

There are many Anglo-Americans who consider the greatest work of Carl Schmitt to be “The Concept of the Political” and in fact it was his first essay to get published in English. Carl Schmitt favored the existence of dictatorship in a state. When he was a professor at the University of Bonn, he wrote the essay, “Political Theology”, in which he reasserted his earlier views on authoritarian theories. Later Carl Schmitt also edited the German Jurisprudents' newspaper.

Carl Schmitt is remembered throughout the world for his radical works and state theories.